Moonlight refracted from her scales causing her normally brown skin to take on a deep, silvery hue as her long body slithered carefully and quietly through the thicket. A crunch of leaves and sticks sounded off to her far left. It was enough to alert her prey, it’s ears pricked up in alarm. The anaconda froze among the brushes, still as a lifeless corpse, if she wasn’t careful she could lose everything here and now. By Caiyha, another predator? She grimaced. Time was against her now, she would need to claim her kill quickly.
Thankfully the horse remained, she didn’t believe in luck but it seemed as if it were on her side today. The spooked horse trotted a little further forward, lowering it’s head to sniff at something on the ground. She saw the window of chance narrowing before her, body instinctively coiling, poised to strike. The Dhani’s head lurched back, ready to spring forth, on to her helpless victim. She was stopped dead in her tracks by a blood curdling howl followed by a brief flash of light. Skae recognized the cry. Wolves… The pang of instinctive fear passed quickly, replaced by cold, assessing calculations. She could handle a wolf or two with little to no problem, she knew, but a pack of the beasts could turn out to be a very different story.
Snapping out of her thoughts she could see the horse had disappeared entirely, in it’s place, a human male stood, naked as his name day. She paused, dumbfounded, then it hit her like a rock. Ah… Kelvic… She mused, disappointed in missing out on a good meal. Skae had no idea Kelvics branched out this far south-east. She had met a few in Taldera, one had even saved her life, but that was the past, no use reliving it. Skae watched the male make his way toward a pool with observant eyes, a waterfall cascading from the rocks above and crashing in to the calm below. Another figure stood by the banks of the pool, a female with long, flowing, silvery hair. Another Kelvic?... It was almost as if her thoughts were answered as the two embraced in some sort of strange, intimate ritual. Skae peered on from the brush, barely able to hide her immense size.
In a time long past she would have sprang from the bushes, using fear as her weapon, creating panic and seizing the moment to strike at one while the other presumably fled in terror. It was a good plan that had worked many times before but those days were over. She couldn’t risk attacking them in their human forms so close to the walls of Syliras, even if she had wanted to. Besides, these Kelvics may have had good relationships with the Humans within the city, if one escaped it could spell bad news for Skae. The Dhani lay there in the bushes for some time as the two conversed between one another. She decided to experiment, it had been awhile since she had any kind of communication with anything other than Human, she may not get another chance like this for a good long time. Perhaps, if she was lucky, she could get the two to separate, maybe dinner wasn’t entirely off the table.
It didn’t take long for her body to shift and mold itself. When the transformation was complete she stood from the bushes in human form, just as naked as the two before her, purposefully making a lot of noise as she did so. It looked as if the male was about to burst into a sprint. Skae stepped out in front, the night breeze ruffling her hair, cold, emerald green eyes piercing his gentle brown. “What a fine night for a ssstroll don’t you think?”
OOCSorry for the lengthy post and for barging in so abruptly like this. You guys were getting so lovey dovey! Let me know if I'm ruining the moment and I'll remove this post ASAP!
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